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Hasselmann and Barker, Climatic Change, in press: IPCC Working Group 3 (in contrast to WG1) has had very little political influence The influential Stern Report, for example, developed its political recommendations independently Needed is a new UN “Climate Policy Panel” that interacts continuously with policymakers But to be effective a Climate Policy Panel will need to develop a new suite of Integrated Assessment (coupled climate-socio- economic) modelsTRANSCRIPT
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What to Do? Does Science have a Role?Klaus Hasselmann Max-Planck-Institut for Meteorology, Hamburg, European Climate Forum
Heraeus Seminar Energy and Climate
A Physics Perspective onEnergy Supply and Climate ChangePrediction, Mitigation and Adaptation
26 - 29 May 2008, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef,
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Discussion topicsInterconnections:
mitigationadaptation
policy
Climate change
What to Do? Does Science have a Role?
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Hasselmann and Barker, Climatic Change, in press:• IPCC Working Group 3 (in contrast to WG1)
has had very little political influence• The influential Stern Report, for example,
developed its political recommendations independently
• Needed is a new UN “Climate Policy Panel” that interacts continuously with
policymakers• But to be effective a Climate Policy Panel will need to develop a new suite of Integrated Assessment (coupled climate-socio- economic) models
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No longer disputed:• Climate change is real• The costs of unregulated climate change greatly
exceed the costs of mitigation• There exist various technologies that, in combination, could limit global warming to acceptable levels (< 20C above pre-industrial)• The estimated costs (-1% to 4% of GDP), although appearing high today (a few trillion $), are quite affordable in the long term (a delay in long-term global growth, if at all, of a few months to a year)
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Strongly disputed: • How best transform our present unsustainable global economic system based on fossil fuels into a sustainable carbon-free system?
• Do scientists have the right tools to provide useful signals that will be heard in the noisy debate over conflicting stakeholder interests, divergent national goals and the stresses of globalization?
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Answers:Traditional (main stream) economists: Yes, the available standard general-
equilibrium macro-economic models are fine. Physics-based economists: No, we need a new generation of dynamic multi-agent dynamic models.
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Business as Usual
sustainability path
Energy efficiency: zero mean cost
High fruits (solar, and unproven or controversial options: CCS, nuclear, fusion, … )
Low fruits renewables
Filling the wedge between projected BAU emissions and a sustainable emissions path (T< 20C)
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Basic climate policy instruments:1.Whip: internalization of external costs (carbon
price)2.Carrot: subsidies (societal investments that
are unprofitable for individual investors – bridging the difference between low discount rates appropriate for public investments and high discount rates demanded by private investors)
3.Regulatory framework: for sectors that are not amenable or sufficiently responsive to market-based instruments (automobile emissions, building insulation, etc.)
4.Technical and financial transfer from rich to poor countries
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fossil energy low-fuits renewables
high-fruits renewables (solar energy)
energy costs
climate damage costs
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1. whipfossil energy
(Kyoto, carbon price: internalize external costs)
low-fruits renewables
energy costs
climate damage costs
high-fruits renewables (solar energy)
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remain non-competitive
fossil energy1. whip
energy costs
climate damage costs
high-fuits renewables (solar energy)
low-cost renewables become competetive
(Kyoto, carbon price: internalize external costs)
low-fruits renewables
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problem: limited abatement capacity!
fossil energy1. whip
low-fruits renewables
energy costs
climate damage costs
high-fruits renewables (solar energy)
low-cost renewables become competetive
remain non-competitive
(Kyoto, carbon price: internalize external costs)
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both become competitive!
2. carrot(Post-Kyoto: subsidies)
price reduction
fossil energy1. whip
low-fruits renewables
energy costs
climate damage costs
high-fruits renewables (solar energy)
low-cost renewables become competetive
(Kyoto, carbon price: internalize external costs)
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Basic climate policy instruments:1.Whip: internalization of external costs (carbon
price)2.Carrot: subsidies (societal investments that
are unprofitable for individual investors – bridging the difference between low discount rates appropriate for public investments and high discount rates demanded by private investors)
3.Regulatory framework: for sectors that are not amenable or responsive to market-based instruments (automobile emissions, building insulation, etc.)
4.Technical and financial transfer from rich to poor countries
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2000 2050 2100
2
8
6
4
TC/yr
World
USA
EU+Japan
China
India
USA
EU+ Japan
China India
Sustainability GOAL
World
BAU per capita emissions (speculative)
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2000 2050 2100
2
8
6
4
TC/yr
World
USA
EU+Japan
China
India
USA
EU+Japan
China Indien
USA
EU+ Japan
China India
Convergence and contraction paths
World Sustainability GOAL
Achievable only with significant N-S transfer of investments and technology
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Challenge for global climate policy: arrive at an equitable international agreement structured on a combination on the four basic instruments:
1. carbon price2. subsidies3. regulatory framework4. technical and financial transfer from developed to emerging and developing countries
Task for science: Which type of coupled climate-socio-economic (IA) models should one apply to assess the impact of alternative climate policies?
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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climate system
economic system
climate policy
ghg emissions
impacts on production,welfare,…
regulatory instruments
scenario predictions
Single-actor “invisible hand“ establishes market equilibrium
Traditional coupled climate-economic (integrated assessment-IA) model
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Shortcomings of economic equilibrium models:
• exclusion of important dynamical processes (technological change, structural unemployment, rich-poor inequalities, business cycles, financial instabilities, globalization adjustments, ……)
• inadequate representation of divergent interests between different actors (“tragedy of the commons” conflict between individual goals and societal responsibilities – in particular: climate , actor-dependent discount factors, business-labor relations, trade agreements,,....)
• inadequate treatment of equity issues (burden sharing, rich-poor inequalities, conflict potential, terrorism, …)
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climate system
economic system
climate policy
ghg emissions
impacts on production,welfare,…
regulatory instruments
scenario predictions
Multi-actor integrated assessment model
Multi-actor dynamic evolution, market response actor dependent
Actors: governments, voting public, media, CEOs, consumers, firms, workers, …
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Historical interjection: Four stages in the development of economic theory (a physicist’s view).
1. Verbalisation (story telling)_ Adam Smith (1723-1790), David Ricardo (1772-1823) Karl Marx (1818-1883), John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), Milton Friedman (1912-2006),...
2. Optimization (marginalization) Leon Walras(1834-1910), Kenneth Arrow (1921- ) , Gerard Debreu (1921-2004), Lionell McKenzie (1919-),...
3. Game theory (interactions between a few players) John von Neumann (1903-1958), John F. Nash (1928-),...
4. Simulation (continuous dynamics, multi-agent) Meadows et al, Limits to Growth (1972); Epstein and Axtell, Growing Artifical Societies (1996) (Sugarscape); John Sterman, Business Dynamics (2000); Eric Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth (2006)....
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Historical interjection: Four stages in the development of economic theory (a physicist’s view).
1. Verbalisation (story telling)_ Adam Smith (1723-1790), David Ricardo (1772-1823) Karl Marx (1818-1883), John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), Milton Friedman (1912-2006),...
2. Optimization (marginalization) Leon Walras(1834-1910), Kenneth Arrow (1921- ) , Gerard Debreu (1921-2004), Lionell McKenzie (1919-),...
3. Game theory (interactions between a few players) John von Neumann (1903-1958), John F. Nash (1928-),...
4. Simulation (continuous dynamics, multi-agent) Meadows et al, Limits to Growth (1972); Epstein and Axtell, Growing Artifical Societies (1996) (Sugarscape); John Sterman, Business Dynamics (2000); Eric Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth (2006)....
quantification
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Economic theory is in the process of a radical paradigm shift from
“traditional economics”
based on a combination of verbalized descriptive concepts, economic equilibrium analyses and basic game theoretical elements to
“complexity economics”
based on computer simulations of multi-agent interactions in a dynamically evolving system.
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This raises two questions:
1) The emergence problem; How do macro-economic structures emerge from the complex micro-economic interactions of many agents pursuing different goals?
2) The parametrization problem: How can one represent the dynamics of macro-economic systems in terms of the interactions between a small set of aggregated agents?
And in the present context: can one apply such models to assess the impacts of climate policies on the global socio-economic system?
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This raises two questions:
1) The emergence problem; How do macro-economic structures emerge from the complex micro-economic interactions of a multitude of agents pursuing different goals?
2) The parametrization problem: How can one represent the dynamics of macro-economic systems in terms of the interactions between a small set of aggregated agents?
And in the present context: can one apply such models to assess the impacts of climate policies on the global socio-economic system?
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Herbert Gintis, The dynamics of general equilibrium, The Economics Journal, 117, 1280-1309 (Oct. 2007)(Simulations kindly provided by Steffen Fuerst, PIK)
Question: How does the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith lead to an equilibrium price of goods in which supply and demand are exactly balanced? (The basic credo of economic equilibrium theory)
Embarrassing counter-example, Scarf (1960): three agents offering and demanding three different goods result in a periodic non-equilibrium price attractor.
Gintis’ approach: a large number of producers and consumers interacting individually with each other.
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Agent type 1: 140 Firms (on average): - produce 10 different goods, - set (individual) prices, - take up credit (from a “central authority“), - pay taxes, - imitate successful competitors, - can go bankrupt (to be replaced by newcomers)Agent type 2: 5250 workers/consumers/shareholders: - work or become unemployed (receiving wages or unemployment benefits) - consume goods - buy sharesAgent type 3: one “central authority“: - imposes and distributes taxes - creates and lends money/ accepts savings
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Results:• Establishment of a statistical equilibrium, with random
fluctuations about the mean state - although all trades were based on local information only: a nice confirmation of the “invisible hand“
• But: Are the actor strategies realistic? No business cycles, recessions, financial instabilities, technological change, structural unemployment, social inequalities,....
• Clearly, we have some way to go to construct reasonably realistic multi-actor economic models!
• Nevertheless: a historical aside on the rate of progress: - Adam Smith: “The Wealth of Nations“: 1776 ; - Herbert Gintis: The Economic Journal, October, 2007
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This raises two questions:
1) The emergence problem; How do macro-economic structures emerge from the complex micro-economic interactions of a multitude of agents pursuing different goals?
2) The parametrization problem: How can one represent the dynamics of macro-economic systems in terms of the interactions between a small set of aggregated agents?
And in the present context: can one apply such models to assess the impacts of climate policies on the global socio-economic system?
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Example 2: A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM)Hoos, G, V. Barth and K. Hasselmann, Ecological Journal , 54, 306-327, 2005Attempt to capture the emergent structures of a macro-economic system in terms of the interactions of a few aggregated actors (firms, households, governments, banks) pursuing different goals – and to apply this to climate policy assessment.
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MADIAM: Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model
NICCS: Non-linear Impulse response coupled Carbon cycle-Climate System
MADEM: Multi-Actor Dynamic Economic Model
CO2 emissions
Climate change : space-time fields of temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, sea level, etc
ClimatePolicy + Economics
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MADEM (Multi-Actor Dynamic Economic Model) Actors Goals Firms Maximize profits Workers Maximize wages Governments Maximize GDP Banks Stabilize money supplyAll actors strive to achieve individual goals while jointly committed to avoiding dangerous climate change (classical “tragedy of the commons” conflict)
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MADEM mathematical structure:state variables x = (xi)control variables z = (zi) = Ci(x)
dxi/dt = Fi (x,z) = Gi (x)
10 state variables xi : physical capital, productivity, employed workers, wages, household and firm savings, government budget deficit, energy intensity, carbon intensity, fossil resources
( Ci(x) define the actors’ control strategies)
Prognostic equations:
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Control parameters:Firms:
Investments in physical capital Investments in productivity
Investments in emissions reduction Credit uptake/Savings
Consumers/Wage earners: Wage negotiations Credit uptake/Savings
Consumer preferences (climate friendly or climate adverse goods)
Governments: Emissions tax Recycled taxes (in consumption or subsidies in renewables)
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Principal driver of economic growth: Investments in technological change
Firms strive to escape the erosion of profits through the pressures of competition (increasing wage levels, diffusion of technological advantages) by continually investing in technology and know how (human capital).Structural unemployment arises when it is more profitable for firms to invest in productivity (technology - with associated reduction in employment) than in physical capital (Basic idea expressed by classical economists of all persuasions - Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, ... – but ignored in traditional economic equlibrium models)
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BAU / MM (Moderate Mitigation)
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ITC (Induced Technological Change)
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Relative demand Good1(climate-friendly)/Good2(climate-hostile)
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Emissions
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Estimates of the costs of climate change mitigation: 1 % of GDP
Consistent with: IPCC 4th Assessment Report; macro-economic model intercomparison, The Energy Journal, Special Issue, 2006; the Stern Review, 2006).Range of other estimates: -1 % to + 4% of GDP
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Is climate change mitigation affordable?
2000 2100
1% BAU growth
2 -GDP (log Scale)
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3 -
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2000 2100
1% GDP loss corresponds to a delay of 1 year over a period of 100 years–an affordable insurance premium to avoid the risk of dangerous climate change!
2 -
1 -
3 -
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BSP (log Skala)
Is climate change mitigation affordable?
1% BAU growth
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Third example: A multi-actor model of the evolution and implementation of climate policy Scenarios from 1970 (first serious warnings of climate
change) to 2100 (end of IPCC scenarios)Simplified MADIAM, extended to include • interaction of scientific knowledge, interest
groups, media, etc in climate policy development and implementation
• identification of critical policy parameters (e.g. whip and carrot policies)
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IPCC
NGOs
media
extreme events vested interests
public
scientificknowledgeresearch
Climate polic iespolicy
conceptspolicy information
subsidies carrot
carbon price whiplow fruits
technology
solar technology
low fruitsinvestments
solar investments
emissionsGDP
carbonintensity
policy implementation
globalwarmingwarming rate
T1 T2
glatt 1
A Vensim model of the climate-policy obstacle course: from scientific knowledge (1) to reduced global warming (8)
(1)
(2) (3)
(4)(5)
(7)
(6)
(8)
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IPCC
NGOs
media
extreme events vested interests
public
scientificknowledgeresearch
Climate polic iespolicy
conceptspolicy information
subsidies carrot
carbon price whiplow fruits
technology
solar technology
low fruitsinvestments
solar investments
emissionsGDP
carbonintensity
policy implementation
globalwarmingwarming rate
T1 T2
glatt 1
A Vensim model of the climate-policy obstacle course: from scientific knowledge (1) to reduced global warming (8)
(1)
(2) (3)(4)
(5)(7)
(6)
(8)
Three stages: 1: scientific knowledge (1 ) to policy information (2) 2: Information (2) to mitigation technology (5) 3: mitigation technology (5) to global warming (8)
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IPCC
NGOs
media
extreme events vested interests
public
scientificknowledgeresearch
Climate polic iespolicy
conceptspolicy information
Stage 1: From scientific knowledge (1) (IPCC) to policy information (2) via the media, vested interests, extreme events, etc.
(1)
(2)
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Policy information4
2
01970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090
Time
policy information : reference 2 SK
IPCC4
2
01970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090
Time (Year)
IPCC : reference 2 SK
Media4
01970 2000 2030 2060 2090
Time (Year)
media : reference 2 SK
Vested interests0
-41970 2000 2030 2060 2090
Time (Year)
vested interests : reference 2 SK
extreme events10
01970 2000 2030 2060 2090
Time (Year)
extreme events : reference 2 SK
(1) (2)
Step 1: From scientific knowledge (1) (IPCC) to policy information (2) via the media, vested interests, extreme events, etc.
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policyconcepts
policy information
subsidies carrot
carbon price whiplow fruits
technology
solar technology
low fruitsinvestments
solar investments
policy implementation
Stage 2: The delay cascade: Information (2) to mitigation technology (5)
(2)(3)
(4)
(5)
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Step 2: The delay cascade: Information (2) to mitigation technology (5)
(2) (3)
(4)(5) Policy implementation0.4
0.2
01970 2000 2030 2060 2090
Time (Year)
policy implementation : Test 23 Mar WGDP
Low fruits/solar technology20 Year*WGDP20 Year*WGDP
0 Year*WGDP0 Year*WGDP
1970 2010 2050 2090Time (Year)
low fruits technology : Test 23 Mar Year*WGDPsolar technology : Test 23 Mar Year*WGDP
Policy information4
2
01970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090
Time
policy information : Test 23 Mar SK
Policy concepts0.4
0.2
01970 2000 2030 2060 2090
Time (Year)
policy concepts : Test 23 Mar WGDP
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low fruitstechnology
solar technology
low fruitsinvestments
solar investments
emissionsGDP
carbonintensity
globalwarmingwarming rate
Stage 3: From mitigation technology (5) to global warming (8)
(5) (6)
(7)
(8)
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Low fruits/solar technology20 Year*WGDP20 Year*WGDP
0 Year*WGDP0 Year*WGDP
1970 2000 2030 2060 2090Time (Year)
low fruits technology : run Alcala Year*WGDPsolar technology : run Alcala Year*WGDP
Emissions40 GTC/Year40 GTC/Year
20 GTC/Year20 GTC/Year
0 GTC/Year0 GTC/Year
1970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090Time
BAU emissions : run Alcala GTC/Yearemissions : run Alcala GTC/Year
global warming4 degC4 degC
0 degC0 degC
1970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090Time (Year)
BAU global warming : run Alcala degCglobal warming : run Alcala degC
GDP8 WGDP8 WGDP
0 WGDP0 WGDP
1970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090Time (Year)
BAU GDP : run Alcala WGDPGDP : run Alcala WGDP
------2 degree limit --------------------------------
BAU
BAUBAUpolicy
policy
policy
solar
low fruits
Step 3: From mitigation technology (5) to global warming (8)
(7)
(5)
(8)
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What are the critical parameters that govern the effectiveness of climate policy?• the whip factor: the emissions cap in a cap and trade system• the carrot factor: the subsidies level, in
particular for solar energy• the delay factor: time delay between policy concepts and implementationSee Vensim sensitivity simulation….
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Overview
• Available technologies for closing the wedge between the BAU (Business as Usual) emissions trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal
• Proposed strategies for closing the wedge
• Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter:
1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand”
2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies
3) A climate-policy evolution model
• Conclusions
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Consider again the two basic questions raised by the paradigm shift from traditional economic equilibrium theory to “complexity economics”:
1) The emergence problem; How do macro-economic structures emerge from the complex micro-economic interactions of many agents pursuing different goals?
2) The parametrization problem: How can one represent the dynamics of macro-economic systems in terms of the interactions between a small set of aggregated agents?
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Proponents of the paradigm shift have focused on the first problem:
the emergence problem:
e.g. Eric Beinhocker, 2006:
“The ultimate accomplishment of Complexity Economics [is to take us] from theories of agents, networks and evolution all the way up to the macro-economic patterns we see in real-world economies. Such a comprehensive theory does not yet exist, but we can begin to see glimmers of hope….”
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However, if we wish to close the present gap between useful scientific advice and climate policy, we need also to urgently address the second problem:
the parametrization problem
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However, if we wish to close the present gap between useful scientific advice and climate policy, we need also to urgently address the second problem:
the parametrization problem
I hope I have provided you also with a “glimmer of hope”
Thank you for listening